13 Best plays books like Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith

Cover of Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith

Girl in the Machine

By: Stef Smith

3.67

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

' Do you want to live forever? YES or NO. ' Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their care…

If you liked the plays plot in Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Equus (Penguin Plays) by Peter Shaffer

1. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

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  • plays
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

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2. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • 21st century
  • plays
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3. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • plays
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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4. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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  • plays
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5. The Children

By: Lucy Kirkwood

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • plays
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6. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • plays
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7. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

By: Robin S. Sharma

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step … read more

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8. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By: Sam Steiner

3.96

Format: None pages,

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more

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  • plays

9. Pomona

By: Alistair McDowall

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow. Ollie's sister is missi… read more

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  • plays
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10. Breathing Corpses (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Laura Wade

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

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  • plays

11. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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12. Earthquakes in London

By: Mike Bartlett

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An all-pervasive fear of the future and a guilty pleasure in the excesses of the present drive Mike… read more

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13. Let The Right One In

By: Jack Thorne

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film. Oskar … read more

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14. Translations

By: Brian Friel

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more

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15. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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16. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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17. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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18. Far Away

By: Caryl Churchill

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… read more

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19. King Charles III

By: Mike Bartlett

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lese-majeste that British theatr… read more

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20. Escaped Alone

By: Caryl Churchill

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women … read more

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21. The Prisoner of Second Avenue

By: Neil Simon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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22. X

By: Alistair McDowall

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It's a tax write-off. This is where they send the new, the under-qualified, the old. And most of al… read more

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23. Eight Perfect Hours

By: Lia Louis

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this romantic and heartwarming novel, two strangers meet in chance circumstances during a blizza… read more

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"The only way to live forever is to leave part of yourself behind. And that's what this is. A part of me."

-Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

"And I don't have a corner sofa or a sweater-wearing husband. But I am here. The Noelle of right now, is right here."

-Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

"I spoke to this woman in the supermaket," Charlie barges in again, "and I said I was tired and finding it hard, and she said, 'Ah, you wouldn't change it thoug, would you?' and I had to of course say…"

-Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

"No," she says. "No, I can't. How can I? I've started seeing someone." My heart stops. "A counselor," she adds, and it starts beating again, relieved. Of course. Of course she wouldn't have a bloody a…"

-Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

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24. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

By: Pat Barker

3.90

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more

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"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

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25. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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26. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

Cover of 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Danny Robins

27. 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Danny Robins

4.47

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, re… read more

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  • plays
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28. The Ghost Train

By: Arnold Ridley

3.61

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

Mystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 female Interior Set A long running su… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Girl in the Machine by Stef Smith

29. Girl in the Machine

By: Stef Smith

3.67

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

' Do you want to live forever? YES or NO. ' Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their care… read more

Similar categories in Stef Smith's Girl in the Machine book and Stef Smith's Girl in the Machine

  • science fiction
  • 21st century
  • plays
Cover of Arlington (NHB Modern Plays) by Enda Walsh

30. Arlington (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Enda Walsh

3.49

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

A strange, tender love story from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce . In a waiting ro… read more

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  • plays

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Edward Albee

4.06

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Raymond Chandler

4.10

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Raymond Chandler

3.95

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